[ANN] BBEdit 14.5

[Rich Siegel]

Good { morning, afternoon, evening },

We are pleased to announce the release and immediate availability of BBEdit 
14.5.

This is a free update for anyone using BBEdit 14 (as well as for anyone using 
11.6.8 or later in Free Mode), and includes a number of feature additions, 
refinements to existing features, and fixes for reported issues.

Notable (among many other things) in this update:

*   Expanded LSP feature support: fix-me, Code Actions, and symbol 
renaming. (Support and behaviors vary by language and server.)

*   Tail Mode for improved log viewing;

*   Updated macOS requirements to 10.15.4 or later;

*   Performance improvements and fixes for reported issues.

A complete digest of the changes since 14.1.2 is available here:

 

If you're already using BBEdit 14 (outside of the Mac App Store), you can 
choose "Check for Updates" from the BBEdit menu, or get the update from the 
BBEdit updates page:

 

For those using an older version: if you would like to upgrade your paid BBEdit 
license, you are welcome to do so, starting here:

 .

BBEdit 14 is also available in the Mac App Store. If you have an active 
subscription, all of BBEdit 14.5's advanced features are active immediately: no 
additional purchase is required.

Meanwhile, BBEdit offers a 30-day evaluation period. During that period, all of 
BBEdit’s features are available. When it ends, you can still use BBEdit — with 
no nag screens or unsolicited interruptions, for free, forever.

After the evaluation period, you may re-enable all of BBEdit’s exclusive 
features at any time by purchasing a license (at a discount, if you have a paid 
license for a previous version).

 

Enjoy,

R.
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Someday I'll look back on all this and laugh... until they sedate me.

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[ANN] BBEdit 14.5 (14C195) pre-release

[Rich Siegel]

Good afternoon folks,

We're currently working on a update to BBEdit 14 which adds some new features 
and refinements, and addresses a few recently reported issues.

Note that this is a _pre-release_ version. The intent is to fix bugs and 
address areas of improvement based on what our customers have reported. 
However, since the software is at this point not fully tested, there _may_ be 
bugs and regressions.

If this prospect makes you nervous, then sticking with the public release 
versions is your best course of action. Nobody will be offended if you choose 
to do so; you're under no obligation to install and use anything but a public 
release. :-)

Complete change notes to date for all the pre-release builds in this cycle are 
available here:

  

The change notes are organized into additions, changes, and fixes, and are 
annotated where appropriate with case numbers. So if you recognize a number 
corresponding to a support case that was opened for you, you can now verify 
that it's been fixed correctly. Please take the time to review the changes 
before using the new build -- it'll be worth your time.

One final note: If you run into a bug in a pre-release version, PLEASE DO NOT 
REPORT THE BUG TO THE LIST. This includes asking about whether others have seen 
the same problem. Instead, please send a bug report to  
and we will deal with it there. This will help us keep the list discussion on 
topic and productive for all list members.

Here is the list of changes made since the previous 14.2 beta posted here:



**This version of BBEdit requires macOS 10.15.4 or later.**


**This version of BBEdit requires macOS 10.15.4 or later.**

version 14.5 (14C195)   (2022-06-20)

Additions
-

*   Added a `support folders` property to the `application` object
in the AppleScript interface. This returns a record of user
parameter pairs, keyed by the folder's name (e.g. "Clippings"),
each value being a file URL to the folder. Note that this does
*not* guarantee that any given folder exists.

*   [DOC] [414652] Added alternate (option-key) menu items for the
Tidy "Clean Document", "Reflow Document", and "Check
Accessibility" commands. Using the alternates will run the
commands using the previously selected options (or factory
defaults, if used for the first time).

Changes
---

*   [352415] When opening a worksheet without a saved working
directory, BBEdit will set the working directory in the
worksheet's shell to the directory containing the worksheet (or,
if appropriate, the directory containing the project document in
which the worksheet is embedded).

*   [DOC] Added settings to the "Preview" preferences (previously
"Preview Helpers") to control Markdown conversion to HTML for
previews and export. (These settings have been available for some
time as language-specific Markdown settings; this change makes
them more discoverable.)

*   [DOC] Removed the vertical grid lines from the "Preview Helpers"
browser list.

Fixes
-

*   [NFR] [DOC] Made the prompt in the "Go to Line Number" sheet
match the prompt in the cursor position popover.

*   [NFR] [445936] Fixed regression in which application-modal "do
you want to save changes" dialogs would remain on screen, no
matter what button you clicked.

*   Corrected layout of items in the printing panel addition.

*   Fixed bug in which items in the "Preview Helpers" browser list
were editable. (Editing them accomplished nothing.)

*   [418885] Made "Copy Path" and friends in disk browser windows do
something useful for items inside of Zip archives.

*   Fixed memory leak when using the Tidy commands which brought up sheets.

*   [359618] Made some changes to significantly improve performance
in the HTML parser, which in turn improves performance when
loading extremely large HTML and XML files (and scanning for
functions/folds in such files).

*   [310633, 319872] Made some refinements to the strategy that Open
File by Name uses to figure out where to look for files, so that
it's able to make a better educated guess.

*   [418437] Fixed bug in which making a case-only change to the
name of an open document would fail to update the UI correctly,
and would potentially lead to misbehavior if a document was
subsequently created or opened from the same location with the
old name (e.g. after deleting the renamed file).

*   [446211] Fixed bug in which Text Factory windows with enough
items to scroll would sporadically display the wrong selection in
the popup menu button (even though the backing data was correct